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PASADENA - After a multimillion-dollar restoration, "La Miniatura," the city's only Frank Lloyd Wright house, is on the market for $7.733 million.
David Zander, president of MJZ, which produces commercials and music videos, bought the house for relatively "not much," about a decade ago but has spent millions completely restoring the 85-year-old house, his real estate agent, Crosby Doe, said.
It's been a work in progress, Zander said.
"I've lived here 7 1/2 years, and in the last three years we've hit (the restoration) the hardest," Zander said. "I've actually never been happier to be there than now, but my priorities have changed and it's time to move. It's been a wonderful chapter."
"La Miniatura" - built in 1923 for Alice Millard at $7,000 over her $10,000 budget - is built into a ravine above the Arroyo Seco. It's regarded as one of the architect's masterpieces.
Using concrete block, which he called "the cheapest (and ugliest) thing in the building world," Lloyd Wright was apparently pleased with the result.
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